"Silence of the Lambs" is written by one of the most
critically aclaimed authors of our time. What you're
complaining about is actually the reality of the psychopath
or more acurrately the serial killer ... the studies I've
read do not unequivically box serial killers in with the
psychopaths of the world. Harris spends years writing and it
shows ... to those who read the genre and enjoy it (for the
lack of a better term). Harris went through the same training
that profilers attend at Quantico and his monsters are based
on two very real individuals: Edward Gein and Jeffrey
Dalhmer. Serial killers motiviations do not make sense to
normal people. Gein was the one making the girl suit out of
the skin of his victims back in the '50s ... Dalhmer wanted
to make the perfect zombie lover and was keeping a penis
perserved for the right one. When I first read Joyce Carol
Oates' "Zombie," I thought she was weird for having a
protagonist do that ... then I read about Dalhmer. If
anything, the works are too realistic. And that's not to say
that there aren't poorly written ones, cause every genre has
it's bad works and its bad authors.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"I know. We are ... the lucky ones." Bif Naked, 1999
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Blumenthal
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 1:07 AM
>
> I was thinking of the big Silence of the Lambs- type
books. I was
> indicting
> the authors who don't feel they have to work to
write books that hang
> together logically. Instead their criminals muder
purely
> because they are
> psycopaths. They don't have reasons for their
actions that can
> be deduced.
> Their motivation never has to make any kind of
sense.
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